BG 10.4-5

बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसम्मोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः ।
सुखं दुःखं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च ॥
अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः ।
भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः ॥
buddhir jñānam asammohaḥ kṣamā satyaṁ damaḥ śamaḥ
sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo ’bhāvo bhayaṁ cābhayam eva ca
ahiṁsā samatā tuṣṭis tapo dānaṁ yaśo ’yaśaḥ
bhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṁ matta eva pṛthag-vidhāḥ

Word-for-word meanings

buddhiḥ — the faculty of subtle discrimination;  jñānam — knowledge;  asammohaḥ — sobriety;  kṣamā — forgiveness;  satyam — truthfulness;  damaḥ — control of the external senses;  śamaḥ — control of the mind;  sukham — happiness;  duḥkham — misery;  bhavaḥ — birth;  abhāvaḥ — death;  bhayam — fear;  ca — and;  abhayam — fearlessness;  eva ca — as well as;  ahiṁsā — non-violence;  samatā — equanimity;  tuṣṭiḥ — contentment;  tapaḥ — austerity;  dānam — charity;  yaśaḥ — fame;  ayaśaḥ — [and] infamy;  pṛthak-vidhāḥ — these different types;  bhāvāḥ — [of] dispositions;  bhūtānām — of living beings;  bhavanti — are born;  mattaḥ eva — from Me alone.

Translation

The faculty of subtle discrimination, knowledge, sobriety, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the external senses, control of the mind, happiness, misery, birth, death, fear, and fearlessness, as well as non-violence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame, and infamy — all these different types of dispositions of living beings are born of Me alone.

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